Motivational speeches for people who say, "Let me bing it on my Windows Phone."
McConnell likes to spend fifty pages driving home ideas that could be sMotivational speeches for people who say, "Let me bing it on my Windows Phone."
McConnell likes to spend fifty pages driving home ideas that could be summed up in one or two sentences, and which generally aren't that profound ("planning ahead is important"). His anecdotes are idiotically exaggerated, like the cigar-chomping general who storms around the office demanding to count lines of code....more
There's a certain point where assembly goes from being extremely difficult to extremely boring. This was a good book about assembly inasmuch as it didThere's a certain point where assembly goes from being extremely difficult to extremely boring. This was a good book about assembly inasmuch as it didn't assume that I am particularly smart, which is a pretty good assumption to make....more
1) I love this book. There are parts I could nitpick (like a lot of reviewers, I strongly disagree with author on static typing; dynamic typing is def1) I love this book. There are parts I could nitpick (like a lot of reviewers, I strongly disagree with author on static typing; dynamic typing is definitely my least favourite part about Ruby) but I've gained so much from this book that I can overlook the small bits I didn't like.
2) A lot of books of this type tend spread the content pretty thin and have a lot of hype and used car salesman tricks and negging. This book has a brief introductory section, and then she is 100% content right until the end.
3) This book improves my code at lot every time I read it. I spent the last month or so paging through it and doing hours of joyful refactoring. Nothing in the book is exactly revolutionary, but she puts together a lot of little good observations and gives her reasoning in a convincing manner. I wish all books could have such a positive effect on my actions and my attitude....more
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